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The Duel

Artist:Henry Soulen
Date:1920s
Medium:Oil on Canvas
Dimensions:Sight Size 30" x 32 1/2" Framed 33 1/2" x 36"
Condition:Excellent
Original Use:Interior Magazine Illustration
Price: Sold
Full view of oil painting
Full view of oil painting
The artist's signature lower right
The artist’s signature lower right
Framed in original antique frame
Framed in original antique frame

Using an inventive pointillism technique, Henry J. Soulen creates a moody and evocative artwork in an American impressionist style in this dramatic painting. This was likely featured as an interior illustration for The Saturday Evening Post. Known for his Orientalist exotic aesthetic, Soulen was an early student of Howard Pyle, he utilized a heavy expressive brush strokes and impasto oil paint technique. The scene features a masked bandit readying himself to duel for the honor of the lovely Edwardian attired maiden. Classic 1920s romantic and nostalgic imagery from the Golden Age of illustration.

The maiden fair
The maiden fair
Detail of masked bandit with 2 pistols
Detail of masked bandit with 2 pistols

Work retains the original antique frame, and is signed lower right, in a fine state of original conservation on original pine stretchers.

Verso view of stretched canvas
Verso view of stretched canvas
Verso view of untouched old canvas and pine stretchers
Verso view of untouched old canvas and pine stretchers

The Duel

Artist: Henry Soulen
Price:  Sold

Filed Under: Sorry, It's Sold
Tagged With: 1920s, american, Edwardian, Golden Age, Henry Soulen, impressionist, original interior illustration, romantic, The Saturday Evening Post
Added to Gallery: May 22, 2017

 

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    Grapefruit Moon Gallery, based in Minneapolis MN, specializes in vintage pin up and original illustration art.  We are the proud home of the Bunny Yeager archives.

    Since 2003, Grapefruit Moon Gallery has been a leading dealer of exclusive original paintings by Gil Elvgren, Alberto Vargas, Earl Moran, Rolf Armstrong and Henry Clive, as well as vintage photographs, prints, and period decorative arts in ceramic and metal.

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